Ant McPartlin has spoken frankly about his terrifying descent into addiction to morphine and other powerful prescription drugs that he started taking for knee pain.

At the height of it, the TV presenter was rushed to hospital in a drug-induced ‘psychosis’ after taking tramadol, morphine and alcohol.

‘It was insane,’ he said. ‘It sends you crazy. It was to the point of hearing things, seeing things in the garden.’

Speaking to The Sun on Sunday about his secret two-year addiction, he added: ‘I was at the point where anything – prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs – I would take. And take them with alcohol, which is ridiculous. The doctors told me I could have killed myself.’

He revealed that he had to be rushed to hospital at 5am after bingeing on drugs while recovering from a knee operation in June. He was in such a bad state that he had to phone his wife Lisa upstairs at home to call an ambulance.

It was after this that McPartlin, 41, decided to tell Lisa, 40, and his co-star and best friend Declan Donnelly about his addiction and go into rehab.

He said that at first he did not believe he had a problem but ended up hiding his addiction because he was embarrassed about it.

McPartlin, who presents Saturday Night Takeaway, I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and Britain’s Got Talent with Donnelly, told the newspaper that his problems began after he damaged his knee in 2014 and he started using prescription painkillers.  He revealed that he became addicted to tramadol – an opioid with similar properties to morphine – within weeks of starting the medication, and had to take more and more to get through work commitments.

And when he flew to the US for the Saturday Night Takeaway series finale last year, American doctors prescribed more painkillers. ‘I don’t know what they were but they were hell of a lot stronger,’ he said. ‘I brought them home with us and was taking them as well.’

McPartlin finally had excruciating knee surgery in June but while he was recuperating his addiction began to spiral out of control.

In addition to painkillers, he was also taking sleeping pills and drinking heavily. 

Drivers are racking up £200,000 in fines a day by passing through a single junction in the heart of central London. 

Seven cameras have been focused on Bank Junction in order to catch out motorists, with 1,500 captured passing through the road each day.

All vehicles, apart from buses and bikes, were banned from using the junction last year to 'improve safety' and cut down on accidents. The snares are taking in around £16,228 an hour with fines rising as high as £50million by the end of the year, reports the Daily star. 

Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke has accused the City of London  of 'fleecing' motorists - rather than focusing on safety.

He said: 'Cameras are simply there to raise revenue cause big resentment and are incredibly unfair.'

However, City of London said the measure will cut down on crashes, reduce pollution and congestion.   

A spokesman said: 'Our number one priority for the experimental scheme at Bank junction is to improve safety. 

Two men have been shot dead during a violent confrontation between gangs and police investigating after a British mother was shot in central Brazil 

Officers are probing the shooting of tourist Eloise Dixon, from Bromley, south east London, and one man has been arrested, according to reports.

Mrs Dixon was shot by gangsters in Brazil after her husband mistakenly drove their car off the main road and into a favela.

Two police officers who came to her aid said her life was saved by her 13-year-old daughter Isabella, who stemmed the flow of blood with her hand as they waited for help. Four men were hit during the shootout and two died from their injuries.

One of the wounded men was named as Fabricio Wesley Ferreira, also known as WL, and is said to be the drug boss in area.

The other injured criminal identified as Jackson Lima Ferreira, also known as JK, is alleged have been involved in the shooting last Sunday.

Mrs Dixon was hit by two bullets, one passed through her abdomen and the other grazed across her chest, when she was with her husband and three daughters in search for water.

The police operation took place in the Sapinhatuba community, which is seven miles away and some 14 minutes drive from the Agua Santa favela.  

Police reported the operation seized 120 packets of marijuana, one kilo of crack cocaine, two 9mm guns with ammunition, one 40mm gun with bullets, a two-way communication radio walkie talkie, two small precision weighing scales and a vehicle which had been tampered with and cloned.

Ferreira, known in the area as the drug kingpin, is linked to the assault against the tourists but not accused of the shooting.

Both wounded bandits have been taken to a local hospital and remain under police guard.

According to A Voz da Cidade, an Agra dos Reis news agency, teams of police were deployed at six yesterday morning.

The battalions split up and invaded various communities including Sapinhatuba, Camorim Grande, Moreno do Moreno and Agua Santa where the Mrs Dixon was shot.

A STUDENT who admitting raping a 12 year-old girl in Edinburgh has walked free from court because he thought she was 16 and a judge said the girl was an “active participant”.

In a shock move of leniency, a judge handed Daniel Cieslak an absolute discharge meaning he escaped  further punishment But prosecutor Kath Harper told a trial: “When told she was 12 years old, he started to cry and held his head in his hands.”

Cieslak and a pal met the girl and her friend at a taxi rank before heading to a flat in Gorgie, Edinburgh, the High Court in Glasgow heard yesterday.

The predator, of Leith, kissed the girl before they had sex. 

She later told her sister she feared she was pregnant and her sibling called cops. The trial also heard the victim spoke to police hunting a missing girl before she got the cab in the early hours. But Miss Harper said her details weren’t noted as officers “were not concerned by her age”.

Polish ex-student Cieslak pled guilty to the 2015 rape. He was bailed by judge Lady Scott before sentencing next month.

A furious motorist has been jailed after he was caught on camera brandishing a gun during an 'insignificant' traffic dispute.

Shocking CCTV footage of the road rage incident shows Daniel Closca, 30, stopping his black Audi on Croyland Road in Edmonton, London due to a vehicle blocking the road ahead.

The vehicle behind him is seen reversing to allow Closca to do the same, but he refuses to move. Closca then gets out of his car before walking over to the vehicle behind and waving his hands in anger.

After walking back to the Audi, he leans into the vehicle where the female front passenger appears to pass him a handgun.

The terrifying clip then shows Closca pointing the weapon at the car behind before driving off. The Audi was later identified a few days later using Automatic Number-Plate Recognition (ANPR) in Bedford. 

Officers identified Closca as the gunman after comparing the CCTV images to the image from his driving licence, which was found in the car. 

A bag containing a large quantity of cash was also found but the handgun has not been recovered.

Closca, of Foster Hill Road, Bedford, was arrested on June 12 after enquiring about his car at a north London police station. He was jailed for 18 months in July after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence at Wood Green Crown Court.

Detective Constable Joel Gregory, the investigating officer from Enfield's Major Crime Unit, said: 'Closca brazenly produced a firearm in the street following what appeared to be an insignificant traffic dispute.

'He had complete disregard for the safety of those around him and also made no effort to disguise what he was doing or who he was.

'It was clear that Closca produced that firearm to cause the occupants of the vehicle behind him to fear for their own safety.

'I would like to extend my thanks to the two members of the public who supported the police investigation. Without them this conviction would not have been possible.

The survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster may have to wait a year to find new homes, with around 200 believed to still be holed up in hotels.

Theresa May promised to find new accommodation within three weeks of the tragedy in June, but it has now been almost nine and the Government is drastically delaying its deadline.

The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Sajid Javid, has written to residents pledging they will find them permanent homes 'as quickly as possible, and within 12 months'.

It comes following news that 70 of the 80-plus victims of the inferno have now been identified.

According to the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, 134 families are still living in temporary accommodation, with a further 24 from Grenfell Walk, where properties were also destroyed in the fire.

No exact figure is available on how many people this equates to, but it is believed it could be around 200.

The council said all survivors had been offered one emergency solution, but only 19 families accepted, according to The Sunday times. 'No-one is being forced to move into any property, and multiple offers are being made until households are completely happy to move. No one will be made intentionally homeless if they refuse an offer.

'It will take a long time for offers to be accepted, because of the highly emotional state of those we need to house and the complexity of their needs.' 

Hundreds of residents will be evacuated from their high-rise flats after an investigation found their homes may not be safe following the Grenfell tragedy.

The gas supply to 242 flats in Ledbury Towers in south London was cut off with immediate effect on Thursday.

Danielle Giblin, 33, said her mother, who has lived in Bromyard House for almost 40 years, broke down in tears after being told she must leave.

It also emerged this week that barely 15 per cent of the £18.9million raised in the wake of the Grenfell disaster has been given to survivors.

Data from the Charity Commission shows £7.25million has been handed to distributing organisations on the ground.

But only £2.8million has reached survivors, almost two months after the blaze ripped through the 24-storey tower block

Police have today removed knives and drug kits from a family home in north London, where a mother and daughter were fatally stabbed.

Leah Cohen, 66, and her daughter Hannah, 33, were found by police shortly after they were called to the home in Golders Green Crescent, at 8.50pm on Friday night.

Following a public appeal, Joshua Cohen, 27, was yesterday arrested on suspicion of the double murders of his mother and sister at their £1.5million home, having been spotted by a member of the public at a nearby park. Met Police revealed that Cohen had recently shaved his head and eyebrows and suffers from mental health issues, including paranoid schizophrenia. 

The Cohen family are long-time owners of Beigel Bake, a well-known bakery in East London’s Brick Lane, which is famous for its salt beef bagels.

Photographs emerged today showing drugs and drugs paraphernalia on Joshua Cohen's Facebook page.

One image showed a close-up of a hand holding what looks like buds of cannabis. Today, a relative paid tribute to the 'loving and generous' sister-in-law, who would have celebrated her 34th birthday on Wednesday.

Deborah Cohen, who is married to Daniel, 34, and jointly ran a cake-making business, Coco Cakes, with Hannah for the last five years, said: 'My kids absolutely adored her. A friend of the family also spoke of his shock following the tragedy.

The man, who did not wish to be named, said his children went to school with siblings Nathan and Rachel. 

He said: 'It's horrible, I couldn't believe it when my son sent me a link to the story. 

'My kids went to school with Nathan and Rachel, they used to get the same coach to a Jewish school in Essex. 

He added: 'They're a really nice family, but I know Josh has struggled for years with his mental illness. 

'It's terrible what's happened.' 

Speaking before the arrest, Detective Inspector Ian Lott from the Homicide and Major Crime Command described the murders as 'a devastating attack on two women in their homes' and said the investigation was ongoing.

One neighbour, 44, who did not want to be named, said he saw Cohen outside the house at around the time of the attack.